Galleries in Paris

herman de vries is a dutch artist born in 1931. since the 1960s, he develops a critical thinking regarding the social context. following many travels, in particular in east, he looks for new relations with the nature : exhibitions of plants collected during the trips, collections of found stones or dried flowers,scrubbing of earth from various origins on square shaped paper.
such devices aim  » to objectify chance « . thereby the arrangement of natural elements is obtained by research’s random. de vries employes his science for the art in order to teach to everyone how to see. de facto he acts like the revelation of our environment. for his personal exhibition “transit”, herman de vries invites us to discover how this theme of « transit », of impermanence, occupies his work since henceforth fifty years.
“transit is the world used to describe the strange space and interval in we sometimes find ourselves, we moderne travellers ; between one airplane and another, we are guided around almost normal flows of people and objects in an airport, as if we had to be out in quarantine for a while. We make a walk in a space out of reality, as a modern rite of passage.” cornelis de boer
‘’process.
the process of being
the process of destruction
(de struction)
the process of becoming
the being of the process
de struction as process
(as part of ‘’the process’’)
becoming of being
being of becoming
the process as process
the process a being
the being as process
de struction
and re ligion
(re ligion as
be coming being)
and being as … ‘’
herman de vries